Partner Consultant at Xero

Why Xero?

At Xero, we’re here to make running a business beautiful. By making small business more efficient every day, connecting them with big business technology and empowering a community behind them, their potential is limitless. When that happens, we’re not only helping small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

What You Will Do...

• You’ll be responsible for creating independent, skilled and confident Xero Partners, namely accountants within Accountancy Practices or Bookkeepers.
• You will also responsible for the implementation and delivery of project plans enabling our Partners to implement their own online strategies. You will be working closely with our sales and education teams both in South Africa and the UK to ensure our Partners are extremely well serviced.
• This role will be responsible for supporting our partners, based predominantly in Johannesburg.

What You Will Bring…

• You’ll work closely with our Accounting Partners as well as stakeholders within Xero, developing and implementing plans ensuring risks or obstacles are managed effectively. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are required in order to support and influence alongside excellent presentation skills.
• Ideally, you’ll have a background in accountancy or accounting software. Experience of working either within an accounting practice or as a part of a SaaS deployment consultancy team is desirable and knowledge of working with Xero or any other cloud based software would be advantageous.
• Any experience of SaaS/Cloud based software implementations would be highly beneficial but not essential.

The Nature Of The Work Determines That, Although You’ll Be Home-based, The Majority Of Your Working Week Will Be On-site At Partner Offices Across Johannesburg